AraliacecB.] 
CHINA. 
189 
Ord. XXXIX. FICOIDE^. Juss. 
1. Mesembryanthemum cordifolium. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 449. PI. Grass, 
t. 102. 
Most probably cultivated. 
1. Tetragonia expansa. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 178. De Cand. PI. Grass, t. 114. Prodr. 
V. 3. p. 452. 
Ord, XL. SAXIFRAGES. Jnss. 
Trib. Escallonie,®. De Cand. 
1. Itea Chinensis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis acutiusculis denticulatis, I’acemis spiciformibiis 
axillaribus solitariis binisve folium subcequantibus. (Tab. XXXIX.) 
Frutex ? glaber. Rami lignosi, teretes. Folia alterna, exstipulata, breviter petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, 
vix subiter obtuse attenuata, margine supra medium deuticulato-serrata, dentieulis versus apicem frequenti- 
oribus, infra medium integerrima, coriacea, glabra, penninervia, nervis obliquis distantibus sm’sum ])rope 
marginem curvatis, venosa, venis transversalibus plurimis, 3 uncias longa vix 1 J lata. Petioli semiunciam 
longi, rugulosi. Racemi axillares, solitarii binive, versus apice ramorum conferti, multiflori, ad basin fere 
usque floriferi folio subsequantes : rachi angulata. Flores albi, vix approxiraati; pedicelli solitarii, bini, 
ternive, flores subaequantes, fere lineas longi, filiformes, basi bracteola parva subulata instructi. Calyx 
o-partitus; segmentis subulatis; sinubus obtusis. Petala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, ej usque lobis 
alterna iisque duplo fere longiora, lineari-lanceolata, medio nervo fusco longitudinali notata. Stamina 5 
petalis alterna, et iis longiora ; aiitherm cordato-ovatte, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pistillum 
oblongum, attenuatum, bipartibile, ad basin giandula annulari crassa cinctum. Qermen pubescens, liberum, 
2-loculare, e carpellis duobus margine introllexis et placentiferis conflatum ; ovula pluriina suspensa. Stylus 
simplex ; stigma capitatum, sulco medio bilobum. Fructus .... 
We trust there can be uo doubt of this being a true species of Itea. In some points it.Approaches to 
I. maa'opliylld, Wall, in Roxb. and Wall. FI. Ind. 2. p. 419; but that is described with a half inferior germen, 
surrounded by an obscurely lobed concave fleshy disc, and has lately been referred, with doubt, to Wallich’s 
new and undescribed genus, Kurrimia, among the Celastrinece. The present does not appear to be rare at 
Canton, but we do not find it in Lom-eiro’s Flora Cochinchensis. Mr. Lindley, some years ago, according 
to a specimen in Dr. Hooker’s Herbarium, considered it as perhaps a species of Astranthus, but this opinion 
was probably given more from the general habit of the plant, than from an examination of the flowers. 
Itea Rosmarinus, Roem. and Schult., or Cedrela Rosmai'mus, Lour., has surely nothing to do with this genus. 
Tab. XXXIX. Itea Chinensis. Fig. 1, Flower ; Jig. 2, Stamen ; Jig. 3, Petal ; Jig. 4, Pistil, with its annular 
gland : — magnijied. 
Ord. XLI. UMBELLIFERAE. Juss. 
1. Torilis Japonica ; caiile glabriusculo tereti ramoso, foliis pubescentibus bipinnatisectis, 
segmentis oblongis pinnatifidis, umbel! is pedunculatis axillaribus et terminalibus 5-7-radiatis, 
involucre utroque oligophyllo brevi-subulato, mericarpiis oblongis, setis rigidis apice un- 
cinatis. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 219 — T. scabra. De Cand. 1. c. — Caucalis Japonica. 
Houtt. — C. orientalis. Lour.? [non Linn .) — Chaeropbyllum scabrum. Thunh.Fl.Jap.p. 119. 
Ord. XLII. ARALIACEAE. Juss. 
1. Paratropia Cantoniensis ; cavde arborescente, foliis longe petiolatis digitalis, foliolis 5-9 
ellipticis basi acutiusculis apice subiter brevi-acuminatis subcoriaceis glabris, racemo terminal i 
